Italy On This Day

NEW - Giancarlo De Carlo - architect Forward-thinking designer helped shape modern Urbino The architect Giancarlo De Carlo, who gained inte...

Forward-thinking designer who helped shape modern Urbino De Carlo's ideas often put him at odds with more traditional urban planners The...

Gianni Morandi – actor and pop singer Veteran entertainer has sold 50 million records  The singer Gianni Morandi, a Sanremo Festival winner ...

Luigi Pirandello - playwright, poet and novelist Brilliant writing was born out of ‘chaos’ Sicilian writer Luigi Pirandello died on this da...

Bruno Ruffo - motorcycle racer Italy's first world champion on two wheels Motorcycle racer Bruno Ruffo, winner of the inaugural 250cc Wo...

Johann Maria Farina - perfumier Emigrant to Germany who invented Eau de Cologne Johann Maria Farina, the Italian perfumier said to have crea...

NEW - Marcus Tullius Cicero – statesman, scholar and writer The brutal beheading of a great Roman politician and orator Cicero, the last d...